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From: sjl@eagle.ukc.ac.uk (S.J.Leviseur)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: SS disks
Message-ID: <4856@eagle.ukc.ac.uk>
Date: 27 Apr 88 09:00:25 GMT
References: <184chad@byuvax.bitnet> <50424@sun.uucp> <172@obie.UUCP>
Reply-To: sjl@ukc.ac.uk (S.J.Leviseur)
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
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In article <172@obie.UUCP> wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes) writes:
>In article <50424@sun.uucp>, cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) writes:
>> The disk manufacturing process goes something like this :
>> (I toured Dysan/Xidex once ...)
>
>Hah!  You were spoiled!  Dysan is truly the BEST manufacturer of
>floppy disks around.  Their manufacturing procedure differs from the

I remember getting 11 bad disks out of a batch of 400 once. There
may have been more duff disks, we didn't bother to go through the
lot it didn't seem worth while. By bad I mean they failed to format
of three different machines, and when we they were sent back to the
UK distributor they checked them and agreed the disks were faulty.
It still took a solicitors letter to get a refund. I was less than
impressed and never have anything to do with Dysan if I can help it.

There is/was a rumour that Dysan disks in Europe are largely made
by Rhone Poulac (well the name is almost right). Whether or not
this is true I don't know, but it might explain differences between
the USA and Europe.

	sean